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Calchas

son of Thestor

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Where it lives

Troades 8 · 11.74/10k
De Divinatione 6 · 2.18/10k
Remedia Amoris 1 · 1.91/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.8/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Aeneid 4 · 0.63/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Calchās — Lewis & Short

Calchās, antis (

I gen. Calchae, Gell. ap. Charis. p. 50 P.; acc. Calcham, Pac. and Plaut. ib.; Calchanta, Verg. A. 2, 122; Val. Max. 8, 11, ext. 6; Stat. Achill. 1, 493; 2, 7; Calchantem, Cic. N D. 2, 3, 7; id. Div. 1, 40, 87; 2, 30, 63; abl. Calchă, Plaut. Men. 5, 1, 48; cf. Prisc. p. 702 P.; Ritschl prol. ad Plaut. Trin. p. 87), m., = *ka/lxas, son of Thestor, the most distinguished seer among the Greeks before Troy, Verg. A. 2, 122; 2, 182; Ov. A. A. 2, 737.

In the wild

Calchas Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.737
Calchas Silius Italicus, Punica 13.41
Calchante Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.11.p2
Calchas Plautus, Mercator 5.2
Calchas Cicero, Orator 74.p1
Calchas Seneca, Troades 1

6 of 33 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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